Late Tang

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Liu Xun is a resourceful general, Wang Yanzhang is a brave general, Gao Siji is a brave general because he is good at charging.Li Cunxiao is fierce and fierce, Yang Shihou is sturdy and strong, and Fu Cun is cautious and benevolent, and he is a benevolent general.Zhou Dewei is calm and has the style of a general, he can be a Confucian general.

The longer the contact with these generals, the more clearly Li Jing will see them.

It can be said that these generals are not only optimistic about Li Jingli, but also the most trusted generals.Although compared to Wang Zhong, Lin Wu, and Lin Wu, their qualifications and prestige in the military are not high, but Li Jing is very clear that the abilities of these few people are stronger than Wang Zhong and the others.Wang Zhong and the others can be regarded as generals, but Liu Xun and the others can become admirals in time, and they have more room for growth.

Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, and Qiu Shengong are also very strong, but they are still inferior to Liu Xun and the others.

Li Juyi, Guo Zhenshan, Pei You and the others are talented generals, but in terms of loyalty, they are not as good as Liu Xun and the others.The larger the team, the more soldiers and horses, it is inevitable that the army will be divided into factions and mountains.Such things, even if Li Jing suppressed them, could not completely prevent them.If you can't hold it down, there is only balance.This is the so-called art of the emperor.

The several reorganizations of Zhen [***] are actually to avoid the emergence of subordinates with great prestige and power.The constant reorganization is to disperse the rights of the subordinates.It's not that Li Jing doesn't trust his subordinates, but that it's the fifth generation now, when a soldier who is arrogant will chase after the commander, and the handsome and strong will rebel against the superior.Li Jing couldn't count on the loyalty of his subordinates, but had to rely on a series of rules and regulations to avoid such conditions.After all, for many people, loyalty doesn't matter, it's just that there are not enough bargaining chips for betrayal.What Li Jing has to do is never give them such a bargaining chip for betrayal.

If it weren't for this consideration of balance, Liu Xun, Zhou Dewei and others' qualifications and prestige, how could they become the main generals of Jin Jiasheng Jiejun and Xuanfeng Army now.

A powerful force relies on gathering more talents.However, there are a lot of talents gathered, but it is even more necessary to use excellent skills in employing them. It is better to have no talents and not use them, just to make wedding clothes for others.

As night fell, Li Jing didn't rest immediately. Tonight, he planned that the grass bandits would attack the city, but he didn't worry too much.Just relying on the strength of the grass thieves he came into contact with during the day, he has already judged that this grass thieves are not to be feared.

After handing over the defense to Zhou Dewei and Liu Xun, Li Jing looked at a grandson on the top of the city gate, and at the same time summoned the new military officers of the Xuanfeng Army, and met with some officials and gentry in Yucheng. represent.

The 25 generals who selected the forward army were all newly promoted from the original team leaders.These new recruits will meet the commander alone for the first time, and they are all at a loss, and they are a little bit nervous when they talk back.However, Li Jing could also see that these people were indeed brave, and several of them were literate.After meeting the ninth general, I was going to meet the tenth one, who Liu Xun mentioned earlier was the one who killed the prisoners boldly. Suddenly the alarm bell rang on the gatehouse.

"Enemy attack! Grass thieves are coming!" Screams rang out, resounding through the night sky.

Zhu Wen was wearing a set of mountain armor, and stood in front of the horse path with a somewhat uneasy expression, and looked down at the clothes on his body several times from time to time.He was released from the small black room just before dark. The commander Li Cunxiao released him personally, and told him that he had been promoted to the general. Throw it to him and leave.

When he was in a daze, Zhu Cun and Zhu Zhen rushed over and told him the cause and effect.It turned out that Marshal Li personally led [-] reinforcements to the city, and entered the city after defeating tens of thousands of grass thieves.Commander Liu reported his affairs to the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief was rewarded and punished clearly. Although he was ordered to be punished with a hundred military sticks, he could be beaten in ten days, although each time he had to be executed in front of the whole army.But after the commander punished him, he didn't forget his merits. He promoted him to be the general of the left capital of the fifth battalion of the left wing of the selection front army, and ordered him to be rewarded with a hundred coins, a set of Shanghaoshan Wenjia, and A wrought iron horizontal knife.

Hearing such news, Zhu Wen couldn't believe it.When staying in the small black room, Liu Xun also asked him to recite the military regulations.According to the regulations, he committed a felony that could be beheaded.He was already very excited to be spared from death, but he never thought that he would be promoted and even be given a precious armor and sword.

All he can think about now is how to be loyal to the Marshal in the future.

The hasty alarm bell interrupted his thoughts and brought him back.Just in time, Li Cunxiao, the commander of the battalion, came over with a Hun iron spear, "The grass bandit is coming, come with me to meet the enemy."

Zhu Wen was stunned for a moment: "The commander summoned..."

"The enemy attacked at night, cancel the summons, and follow me." Li Cunxiao said as he walked past him.

When Zhu Wen heard that the summons had been cancelled, he immediately showed disappointment. He was ready to say something grateful to the commander in his stomach.However, the military situation was urgent, so he didn't dare to delay, turned his head to look at the city tower, and hurriedly followed Li Cunxiao.

Upstairs at the south gate, Zhou Dewei did not leave, but stood behind Li Jing as straight as an iron spear.In tonight's night battle, Li Jing handed over the heavy responsibility of defense to Liu Xun, and also gave Liu Xun the remaining thousand Songzhou soldiers who came to reinforce the troops.However, the more than [-] elite troops led by Zhou Dewei did not go up the city wall even though they assembled.

"Commander, the bandits are attacking, and they have fallen into the commander's trap!" Zhou Dewei saw that the bandits really came, and couldn't help admiring Li Jing even more.There will be five generals, wisdom, courage, benevolence, strategy, and Confucianism, but in Li Jing's body, he doesn't know how to distinguish them.Li Jing used his troops to be resourceful, so he had a lot of resourcefulness and wisdom, but he often charged into traps, so there is no need to talk about bravery.On the other hand, Li Jing opposed the killing of captives. He led his troops with strict discipline, so he could definitely be counted as a benevolent character.

For general generals, it is good to be outstanding, but Li Jing has five talents, no wonder he is able to command a large army at such an age.

"Calculating the time, the other three groups of soldiers and horses have almost arrived!" Li Jing casually flipped through a page of the military book, and continued to look at it by the firelight.

"Surrounded on all sides, Wang Xianzhi can't escape." Zhou Dewei couldn't help but chuckled, "It's a pity that this person is also known as the general of the sky, and also serves as the commander of all the heroes in the sea. Such a trap has not been discovered until now, but he was sent to death. The same is desperately biting the bait, if such people can also succeed, it is really a big joke."

Li Jing also smiled, "Wang Xianzhi is in the middle of the game, how can he see the situation outside the game? Besides, he has been completely mobilized by us now, full of anger, using troops with anger, such a mistake, I am afraid it is the lowest level The general also knows, but it is a pity that he is just a salt smuggler. A salt smuggler can at best be a murderous and arsonist robber, but if he leads an army to lead a general, he is born with a deficiency."

"My town [***] just wiped out the Shatuo people. If Wang Xianzhi is killed again this time, the commander's contribution will be unrivaled." When Zhou Dewei said this, his tone was a little low.Li Jing immediately understood the meaning of his words. Li Jing is too young now, but his official position cannot be higher.The position is as high as Sangong, the figure is Lingyan Pavilion, and the seal of the commander of the three towns is hung on the body.If you make meritorious deeds again, it will really be a master of meritorious deeds.

Especially Zhou Dewei was very clear about the experience in Chang'an last time.Li Jing has already offended Tian Lingzi, the power eunuch, so he should keep a low profile.

Seeing Li Jing's smile and silence, Zhou Dewei thought he didn't understand, so he said again: "Commander, the commander of the twelve towns of the imperial court to suppress the thieves this time is Commander Song Jie, and the rest of the towns are not contributing at the moment. Desperate, I'm afraid it's not a good thing."

Li Jing smiled slightly, and looked at Zhou Dewei with bright eyes: "Why, what does Yang Wu mean to let the handsome be a thief?"

Zhou Dewei lowered his head and did not speak. As a subordinate, he was obliged to remind some words, but in the end, it was up to Master Jie to make the decision.

In fact, Li Jing has been thinking about the issues that Zhou Dewei mentioned.Suppressing thieves, in fact, Li Jing is not too concerned.Because grass thieves are different from Shatuo people. Shatuo people occupy territory and have grounds. It seems difficult to fight, but it is actually easy.But grass thieves are different, they are basically rogues, fleeing everywhere, without a fixed base, and they can't even kill all the soldiers, because the vagrants are their soldiers.They don't have to worry about logistics and food, because they can rob everywhere and grab it wherever they go.To deal with such an army, it must be surrounded by multiple soldiers and horses, but the current imperial court and local feudal towns are willing to work so hard, especially when the imperial court cannot guarantee the food and payment of troops.

Li Jing himself didn't want to, and now he also understood that he was in a situation where he was in a precarious situation, and he was anxious to go back and stabilize his own territory.But now that Wang Xianzhi stood in front of him, this battle still had to be fought.However, how to fight is a problem.Li Jing has been thinking about whether to fight a small battle or a big one.A small battle is to lead Wang Xianzhi into the siege, then withdraw the troops, defeat the grass bandits in the first battle, and then return to Dengzhou regardless of the rest.

In a big fight, of course, after the defeat, they would take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill Wang Xianzhi directly.

Now that Zhou Dewei reminded him, Li Jing had already made up his mind.So what about defeating the thieves, Li Jing's official position is so famous now, do he still need to add another official? No need.The higher the official, the easier it is to become the target of others.It is enough to have the reputation of defeating the Shatuo people. Under normal circumstances, if others want to move him, they have to think about it first.

Official prestige is not enough without it, but it doesn't need to be too high, it is enough to have it.The real core is the territory.Under the strong appearance of the town[***], it is actually difficult to match. After all, if it is not relying on various avoidances, it will be empty. A town[***] that is only less than a year old and has annexed many soldiers and horses [***] In fact, the combat power is not too strong.

Li Jing now needs to expand his territory, stabilize his foundation, and refine his troops.

Wang Xianzhi, just spare his life! (To be continued.)